Abstract: A new variety of Hybrid Tea suitable for garden decoration, having flowers of pink coloration.

Abstract: This invention is a new and distinct grapevine variety denominated ‘IFG 68-175’. ‘IFG 68-175’ is characterized by producing large bright red, crisp, uniform berries with high sugar content borne on medium size clusters. The fruit ripen and are commercially harvestable from late August to mid-September. Berries color fully even under adverse conditions and do not darken excessively throughout the harvestable period.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Exochorda plant named ‘Niagara’, characterized by its compact, upright, outwardly spreading and mounding plant habit; easy to propagate; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; large white-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) named ‘Carina’ originated as a found plant in a cultivated area of ‘Orion’. The cultivar ‘Carina’ has a R.H.S. 68 A (red-purple group) bi-color pigmentation pattern on its sepals at maturity, with the pigmentation giving way to non-pigmented margins and is distinguished from other similar cultivars of which the inventor is aware by its stable sepal color pattern, its sturdy growth habit, and small leaves. ‘Carina’ has large showy inflorescences, having both sepalous and non-sepalous florets, with the sepalous florets hiding the non-sepalous florets.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) named ‘Dove ’ originated as a controlled cross between the cultivars ‘BuffiexLibelle96BL-2’ and ‘Libelle’. The cultivar ‘Dove’ has white R.H.S. 155 D (white group) sepals at maturity and is distinguished from other similar cultivars of which the inventor is aware by its sepal color, and its compact and sturdy growth habit. ‘Dove’ has large showy inflorescences, having both sepalous and non-sepalous florets.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Hydrangea macrophylla (Thunb.) named ‘Merritt White’ was found in a field of the patented cultivar ‘Ravel’—U.S. Plant Pat. No. 10,152. The cultivar ‘Merritt White’ has white sepals at maturity and is distinguished from other similar cultivars of which the inventor is aware by the unique manner in which the inflorescence ages. As the mature sepals age and turn green they are highly resistant to burning and turning brown. The new variety ‘Merritt White’ further possesses the favorable characteristics of a compact growth habit and long lasting large inflorescences.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Duempwi09’, characterized by its semi-upright, compact and mounded plant habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; and large white-colored flowers that are held above and beyond the foliage in mounded umbels.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Verbena plant named ‘Wesverepea’, characterized by its compact and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit; medium-sized leaves; freely flowering habit; and peach-colored flowers that are held above and beyond the foliar plane in rounded umbels.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Duesurred09’, characterized by its mounding and outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large red-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Dueswebermo’, characterized by its compact, mounding and outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large pink-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Duesurmar’, characterized by its mounding and outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large dark violet-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Dueswecara’, characterized by its compact, mounding and outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large light pink-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘USTUN19603’, characterized by its upright, outwardly spreading and low mounding plant habit; freely branching and vigorous growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; small flowers that are bright pink in color; and good garden and summer performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Duesurneon’, characterized by its mounding and outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large red purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Petunia plant named ‘Duesurkard’, characterized by its compact, mounding and outwardly spreading to trailing plant habit; freely branching habit; early and freely flowering habit; large dark purple-colored flowers; and good garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Duetimhopi’, characterized by its compact, upright and mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; and daisy-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets that are red purple in color.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Duetirevel’, characterized by its compact, upright and mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; and daisy-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets that are dark red purple in color.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Osteospermum plant named ‘Duetisunray’, characterized by its compact, upright and mounded plant habit; freely branching growth habit; early and freely flowering habit; and daisy-type inflorescences with elongated oblong-shaped ray florets that are yellow in color.

Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Heliotrope plant named ‘USHTRP0303’, characterized by its upright to outwardly spreading plant habit; vigorous growth habit; freely branching habit; freely flowering habit; fragrant violet-colored flowers; and good summer garden performance.

Abstract: A new and distinct hybrid of Heuchera plant characterized by being very free flowering on short flower stalks, having a very long bloom time (bloom from early spring to late fall in Canby, Oreg.), excellent flower size and color, a well branched, mounding habit, and excellent vigor.

Abstract: A Lavandula cultivar particularly distinguished by a compact and rounded plant habit, a globular plant shape with low to moderate vigor, violet-blue flowers with a continuous and rich flowering habit, and a flowering habit that when the first flowers are trimmed, the plant will flower again, is disclosed.

Abstract: A new and distinct Sutera cultivar named ‘DANCOP29’ is disclosed, characterized by a trailing growth habit, very well branched plant, large flower size and vigorous growth. The new variety is a Sutera, normally produced as an outdoor garden or container plant.

Abstract: A method for improving the measurement accuracy of a portable coordinate measurement machine which comprises an articulated arm having jointed arm segments is presented. This method includes sensing deformation of a portion of the articulated arm when the arm is placed under a load, this deformation causing an error in the measurement made by the CMM, and correcting such error in response to the sensed deformation.

Abstract: A system for purifying exhaust gas generated by an internal combustion engine including a bypass branching out from the exhaust pipe downstream of a catalyst and merging to the exhaust pipe, an adsorber installed in the bypass, a bypass valve member which closes the bypass, and an EGR conduit connected to the bypass at one end and connected to the air intake system for recirculating the exhaust gas to the air intake system. The bypass valve member is opened for a period after engine startup to introduce the exhaust gas such that the adsorber installed in the bypass adsorbs the unburnt HC component in the exhaust gas. The adsorber adsorbs the HC component when the exhaust temperature rises and the adsorbed component is recirculated to the air intake system through the EGR conduit. In the system, the bypass valve is provided at or close to the branching point in the exhaust pipe and a chamber is provided close to the branching point such that the conduit is connected to the bypass at the one end in the chamber.

Abstract: A weather station with at least one element mounted on bearings on a housing or rack on a vertical axis for alignment with the direction of the wind and with a measuring device, which depending on the angle position of the element aligning in the direction of the wind provides an electrical signal, wherein the measuring device is an opto electric measuring device with at least two light paths. Each of the at least two light paths has its own light-emitting element and which have a common light detector and form a light path configuration, each light path is used to scan a group of markings, which are located around an axis of at least one screen in such a manner that the markings provide a code when scanning that defines the angle area of the position of the element aligning with the direction of the wind. The light-emitting elements determine the angle position of the element aligning with the direction of the wind.

Abstract: A dehydrator breather is provided that includes automatic purging of accumulated moisture by detecting absorbed moisture in the breather, and closing an intake air channel, while opening an exit moisture channel. Adjustment of a default time-based purging cycle is adjusted to account for fluctuations in the detected moisture. An external communication capability is provided to enable off-site monitoring of the breather or the tank the breather is attached to.

Abstract: A fluid filter centerpost assembly in combination with a fluid filter cartridge for creating a “no filter-no run” design according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises an oval-shaped design for the centerpost assembly and an oval-shaped design for a seal that is positioned between the centerpost assembly and the fluid filter cartridge. The centerpost assembly includes a main body having an oval shape in lateral cross section in unitary construction with a radial flange and interior shelf. The interior shelf defines a flow opening and a movable valve ball is positioned on the interior shelf and is able to move in the direction of the flow opening due to incoming fluid pressure. The fluid filter cartridge includes a closed endcap with a blocking pin such that when the fluid filter cartridge is installed, the blocking pin is positioned to prevent the valve ball from closing off the flow opening.

Abstract: Couplers with ball-shaped heads are mounted on a pair of objects, and a split arm assembly is interposed along a line of juncture between the pair of couplers and clamped together about the heads thereof. However, before that time, a spring is interposed between the pair of elongated arm sections in the assembly to produce a differential in the reaction of the respective pairs of end portions in the arm sections to the clamping forces so that the assembly is formed into a bifurcated arm assembly at one of the heads. That one head is also compressible so that after the split arm assembly has been rotated in relation to the one head, or vice versa, to set the angle of the line of juncture with respect to one or both of the objects, further clamping of the assembly operates to interlock the assembly with the heads of the pair of couplers to rigidify the connection made by the assembly between the pair of heads.

Abstract: A sealing device for sealing off an opening between a shaft and a grease-lubricated split bearing housing comprises two halves divided by a diametrical cut and each having a main body arranged in a circumferential groove in the bearing housing opening. The sealing device is provided with sealing lips spaced apart from each other and forming an intermediate grease reservoir, and reinforcing portions arranged between the main seal body and the sealing lips to facilitate sealing engagement between the sealing lips and a shaft when an upper bearing housing half arranged with the upper seal half is mounted onto the shaft while the shaft is resting in a lower bearing housing half arranged with the lower seal half.

Abstract: A battery charger for a cellular phone, having a speaker includes an ear jack connected to an ear jack of the cellular phone, for transmitting a voice signal of the cellular phone to the battery charger, a voice amplifier for amplifying the voice signal from the ear jack, and a speaker for converting the voice signal output from the voice amplifier into voice. The battery charger for a cellular phone, having a speaker further includes a communication port connected to a communication port of the cellular phone when the cellular phone is inserted(connected) to the battery charger, for mutually transmitting the voice signal, and a selector for connecting either the communication port or the ear jack with the voice amplifier.

Abstract: A multi-phase DC/DC converter having an output voltage and including a plurality of converter channels. Each converter channel includes a converter channel input and a converter channel output. Each converter channel is configured for generating a converter channel current and for adjusting said converter channel current in response to a control signal electrically connected to each converter channel input. A control circuit generates an error signal representative of a comparison of the converter output voltage to a reference voltage. The control circuit includes a plurality of control circuit channels, each of which correspond to a converter channel. Each control circuit channel generates a channel current signal representative of a corresponding converter channel current, and generates a differential channel current signal representative of a comparison of the channel current signal to an average current signal.

Abstract: A set of haptic elements (haptels) are arranged in a grid. Each haptel is a haptic feedback device with linear motion and a touchable surface substantially perpendicular to the direction of motion. In a preferred embodiment, each haptel has a position sensor which measures the vertical position of the surface within its range of travel, a linear actuator which provides a controllable vertical bi-directional feedback force, and a touch location sensor on the touchable surface. All haptels have their sensors and effectors interfaced to a control processor. The touch location sensor readings are processed and sent to a computer, which returns the type of haptic response to use for each touch in progress. The control processor reads the position sensors, derives velocity, acceleration, net force and applied force measurements, and computes the desired force response for each haptel. The haptels are coordinated such that force feedback for a single touch is distributed across all haptels involved.

Abstract: There is provided an illumination system for microlithography with wavelengths ?193 nm. The illumination system includes a primary light source, a first optical component, a second optical component, an image plane, and an exit pupil. The first optical component transforms the primary light source into a plurality of secondary light sources that are imaged by the second optical component in the exit pupil. The first optical component includes a first optical element having a plurality of first raster elements that are imaged into the image plane, producing a plurality of images being superimposed at least partially on a field in the image plane. The second optical component comprises a first optical system that includes at least a third field mirror with positive optical power and a second optical system that includes at least a second field mirror with positive optical power.

Abstract: A system and method for efficiently charging and discharging a capacitive load from a single voltage source. The system includes a first switch for selectively connecting the voltage source to the load and a second switch for selectively providing a short across the load as may be common in the art. A particularly novel aspect of the invention resides in the provision of plural capacitive elements and a switching mechanism for selectively connecting each of the capacitive elements to the load whereby the load is gradually charged or discharged. In the illustrative embodiment, the switching mechanism includes a set of switches for selectively connecting each of the capacitive elements to the capacitive load and a switch control mechanism for selectively activating the switches.

Abstract: A method for controlling an optical pickup head of an optical processing apparatus is provided. A first lead-lag compensator is disabled and a second lead-lag compensator is enabled when the optical pickup head switches from a following mode to a seeking mode. Then, an initial operating factor of the second lead-lag compensator is determined according to a last input value and a last output value of the first lead-lag compensator. An initial kick force of the actuator in the seeking mode is calculated by realizing the last input value and the last output value of the first lead-lag compensator immediately before the first lead-lag compensator is disabled. Finally, the optical pickup head is actuated to perform a seeking operation with the initial kick force.

Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for reducing co-channel interference. The present invention includes a powerful means for eliminating co-channel interference from base stations in a wireless communication system. The present co-channel interference reducing method and apparatus utilizes frame synchronization between selected time frames (e.g., odd and even time frames) to reduce co-channel interference. Advantageously, the present invention reduces co-channel interference and, thus, allows robust modulation schemes to operate even at worst case line-of-sight (LoS) interference scenarios of 100%. The present invention can also use an uplink/downlink ratio formula to further improve system capacity (i.e., reduce co-channel interference) in ATDD systems. The present inventive method and apparatus can be used in any type of frame based and frame synchronized communication system.

Abstract: A method of operating a telecommunications system with a switching facility and with subscriber channels over which digital data are transmissible in the form of data packets each including a destination address, and such a telecommunications system are characterized in that the data packets of two or more subscriber channels to be sent to the Internet are combined onto a single concentrating channel.

Abstract: A segmented radial spatial light modulator has an active optic area comprising a plurality of radially extending active optic modulators disposed at various angular orientations with respect to a central axis. The segmented radial spatial light modulator is used in separating and isolating portions of Fourier transform optic patterns from images for characterization of images by shape for recording, storing, retrieving, searching, and comparison to other images for matches and near matches. The images can be ghosted to increase optical power in the Fourier transform optic pattern without adding new shape content and for grading comparisons to other image shape characteristics for identifying near matches in addition to matches.

Abstract: An image of stabilized tint is output even if a supplied transfer medium is changed to a transfer medium of a different surface gloss or type of paper. If the supplied transfer medium has changed, the tint of a corrective image formed on the transfer medium is sensed, a tint correction of an image forming portion is performed based upon result of sensing, and corrective data of the tint correction and information relating to the transfer medium is stored. If a change of the transfer medium is sensed subsequently, a determination is made as to whether the transfer medium is substantially the same transfer medium, based upon the stored information relating to the transfer medium. If the transfer medium is substantially the same, then image processing is executed based upon the stored corrective data.